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[jett]

So...at least I think so. It's detected in the BIOS thingy, but I can't access it in DOS/Windows, as if it didn't exist. Does this mean it's dead?? Can I repair it, or get back my data, somehow...?

Help

 

[demon]

If your hard drive is dead, how are you making this post?

LIAR.

 

[DarienA]

Why do people give us so little information to work with and expect us to be able to help? What were you doing before this happened, etc....

What OS?
Is this a secondary drive? etc....

Assuming this is a Win 2000/XP machine and this is a secondary drive right click on My Computer, choose Manage, then choose disk management... do you see the second hard drive in there? Does it have a drive letter associated with it? When you right click on it is one of the available options assigning a driver letter?

OMG PLEASE HELP ME MY CAR DON'T WORK

 

[xsarien]

OMG PLEASE HELP ME MY CAR DON'T WORK

I assure you that there will be a day - and I will dread it myself - when the solution to that will ALSO be "Go into the task manager, and look for spyware or viruses running."

 

[Shogmaster]

So...at least I think so. It's detected in the BIOS thingy, but I can't access it in DOS/Windows, as if it didn't exist. Does this mean it's dead?? Can I repair it, or get back my data, somehow...?

Help

My bet is that you don't have admin access to it. If your mobo can see it, and your Windows sees it (and gives it a drive letter), but won't let you access it, then it's either unformated, or from another NT machine with password lockout.

 

[Doom_Bringer]

If your hard drive is dead, how are you making this post?

LIAR.

:lol :lol

 

[DarienA]

I assure you that there will be a day - and I will dread it myself - when the solution to that will ALSO be "Go into the task manager, and look for spyware or viruses running."

Time to resurrect and oldie but a goodie.... there are a few different versions of this floating around...

If Microsoft Built Cars...
The top 14 ways things would be different if Microsoft built cars:
(drumroll, please...)

1. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until after that year, instead of before.

2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason,and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.

4. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a car '95 or a car NT, but then you'd have to buy more seats.

5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car... Wait a sec, it's that way now!

6. Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was solar powered, twice as reliable, 5 times as fast, but only ran on 5% of the roads.

7. The oil, alternator, gas, engine warning lights would be replaced with a single ``General Car Fault'' warning light.

8. People would get excited about the ``new'' features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other brands for years.

9. We would still be waiting on the ``6000 sux 58' '' model to come out.

10. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft GasTM.

11. Lee Iacocca would be hired-on as Bill G.'s chauffeur.

12. The US government would be getting subsidies from an automaker, instead of giving them.

13. New seats will force everyone to have the same size ass.

14. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler would all be complaining because Microsoft was putting a radio in all its models.

 

[alejob]

Time to resurrect and oldie but a goodie.... there are a few different versions of this floating around...

If Microsoft Built Cars...
The top 14 ways things would be different if Microsoft built cars:
(drumroll, please...)

1. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until after that year, instead of before.

2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason,and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.

4. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a car '95 or a car NT, but then you'd have to buy more seats.

5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car... Wait a sec, it's that way now!

6. Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was solar powered, twice as reliable, 5 times as fast, but only ran on 5% of the roads.

7. The oil, alternator, gas, engine warning lights would be replaced with a single ``General Car Fault'' warning light.

8. People would get excited about the ``new'' features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other brands for years.

9. We would still be waiting on the ``6000 sux 58' '' model to come out.

10. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft GasTM.

11. Lee Iacocca would be hired-on as Bill G.'s chauffeur.

12. The US government would be getting subsidies from an automaker, instead of giving them.

13. New seats will force everyone to have the same size ass.

14. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler would all be complaining because Microsoft was putting a radio in all its models.

I don't get most of them.
How about this one:

When you push the break, your car asks you if you really want to stop and makes you push the accept button.


Hehe, I don't have a beef with the confirmation message but a lot of people do.

 

[Doom_Bringer]

reset the CMOS battery see if that helps...

 

[jett]

If your hard drive is dead, how are you making this post?

LIAR.

I used another computer, dumbshit.

Anyway, Win98, just the one HD, it doesn't appear under Windows/DOs at all. It's dead, no question about it. Either way, I got the answers I was looking for from someone else.

I guess I made a mistake asking for help in this fucking place. Should've known, being here long enough. Lesson learned, anyway.

 

[DarienA]

I used another computer, dumbshit.

Anyway, Win98, just the one HD, it doesn't appear under Windows/DOs at all. It's dead, no question about it. Either way, I got the answers I was looking for from someone else.

I guess I made a mistake asking for help in this fucking place. Should've known, being here long enough. Lesson learned, anyway.

Yeah cause you gave us SO much information to go in helping you....